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192785 2003-11-18 01:28:00 Following on from being given this link (www.trademe.co.nz), my virus scanner, Avast, appears to have detected a virus, Trident TPE 1.4.

I opened the window in IE, and refreshed it four times to be sure, and it picked it up all four times. However, opening the page in FireBird does not result in an alert from Avast.

If you have an up to date virus scanner, can you please verify that there is a virus, however, I request that you only do so if you are confident it will be picked up and removed.

The item in concern is an ad, located at the top right of the page, this ad (www.trademe.co.nz) to be precise. The virus scanner only picks up the image as being the virus, but I don't know how you'd get a virus to be executed by displaying an image.
agent (30)
192786 2003-11-18 01:38:00 No virus detected.

Tested with up-to-date NAV 2003 and McAfee Enterprise V7 on 2 different PC's
CYaBro (73)
192787 2003-11-18 01:38:00 Using NOD 32 signiture dated 14/11/03.
No virus detected
Wayne H (1736)
192788 2003-11-18 01:39:00 That was 1 PC running WinXP Pro with all latest updates and IE6

2nd PC is Win2k with all latest updates and IE6
CYaBro (73)
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